Yesterday (Saturday) we drove to Alpine WY to the Palisades Reservoir. 

Palisades Reservoir is formed by Palisades Dam, which was started in 1953 and completed in 1957. Palisades Dam has a maximum height of 260 feet above the stream bed; it is one of the largest embankment dams ever built by the Bureau of Reclamation. It took over 13.5 million yards of earthen dirt, rock, and gravel to build Palisades Dam

Palisades Reservoir is 18 mile long and when full is 16,100-acres. It has 70 miles of limited access shoreline. It backs up water all the way to the confluence of the Snake, Greys and Salt Rivers in Alpine, Palisades Reservoir is great for fishing, water skiing, camping, and picnicking.  We enjoyed watching the boats and all the fishermen. For lunch we stopped at the Yankee Doodle restaurant, what a hoot. Everything was red, white and blue, even the sugar!


This morning it started raining and the next thing we knew it was hailing! it lasted only for a minute.  Can't complain it's the only rain we've had in three weeks. 


Today Monday we returned the car so tomorrow will be cleaning and laundry day and we head out Wednesday for Montana.